Presbyterian General Assembly.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4573, 18 February 1893, Page 3

Presbyterian General Assembly.

[Per Pbbss Association. 1 WELLINGTON, Fbb. 18. The Presbyterian General Assembly invited the Moderators .to breakfast this morning. Among the speakers were the following :— Mr Duthie, M.H.8., who urged on the members the necessity for more attention being paid .to the wants of the large non-churoh-goihg population. The Bey Lewis, from the Ministers' Association, touching . on the Bible-in-schools question, aßßured the meeting that, while lamenting " the absence of Bible from schools, he would be no cat's-paw to help churches to acquire grants from the public purse* for denominational schools. In the Assembly the report of the Maori mission called attention to the need for more workers, and Bpeeially for the appointment of a medical missionary. The report Btateß that the Natives Buffer much from Native impostors, who often combine the double function, prophet and doctor, and whose treatment of patients in many instances proves fatal. The Maoris have much to learn of the sanitary laws by which dwellings and -habitß of life are affected. The Chinese mission reports that there are 2259^ Chinese in the Colony north of the Waitaki. The report pleaded for a New Testament being put into the hands of each of these.